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MANY THOUSANDS KILLED IN CANTON

Poignant Picture Of Terrible Havoc By Reuter's Man

THICKLY-POPULATED AREA IN TUNGSHAN WRECKED CITY CROWDED WITH ACTION BY

WEEPING RELATIVES

Canton, To-day. -

Considerable time must elapse before it will be

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possible accurately to estimate Canton's casualty STOP RAIDS?

Londen, To-day The teams of the Japanese reply. to the British Note justify the Government in regarding the Inci

CURFEW ORDER IN CANTON

The exodus from Canton to

Hong Kong was intensified this. morning, and the Canton Express, which left af 9.10 this morning. and arrived in Kowloon at 12:45 pm, was loaded to capacity with refugees.

train-

the

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orst examples of indiscriminate cruelty on a mass scale în modern

list as the result of this morning's air raid, but Reu ter's correspondent, after a tour of the scenes of the bombing, is confident that many thousands were killed, nearly all of them non combatants.

Only visiting eight or nine places, Reuter's cor-dent as closed in the opinion of the history." respondent saw terribly gruesome sights and irre parable havoc in the closely-populated poorer dis- tricts of Tungshan.

Each bomb reduced many houses to brick and mortar, leaving open patches of ruin of fully forty yards, with dead bodies on all sides, most of them covered temporarily with straw awaiting burial.

Some of the corpses were too horrible to des- cribe, but even more poignant was the sight of an occasional arm left protruding from the debris.

One old Chinese woman was sitting in a chair outside the gate of her house when a bomb fell.

She was still sitting there, a tragić figure, gaz- ed at by awed crowds.

One sad, grim-faced Chinese gentleman raised a strip of matting and showed Reuter's correspon- dent all that remained of his wife.

While in various places women, were weeping quietly over their lost ones, others were carrying their undamaged belongings from their ruined homes.

and although many bodies have been removed from the wreckage, it is known that there are at least 100 still buried beneath the debris.

These unhappy relations seemed

Reuter's correspondent has only the most tragic part of the whole seen a fraction of what damage. affair, and their bewildered expres-was actually done. sions must be seen to be believed Most of the foreigners on Sha- Many houses, although still meen are unaware of the magni- standing, have their walls com tude of the horrors only a few miles pletely blown away and the re- from their doors. mains of furniture on the first and second floors still in their original position.

NON-COMBATANTS

All to-day's scenes represent the result of bombing of non-com- ratants, and it is impossible to sur- om-¡mise what the Japanese objectives

must have been.

SCHOOL DEMOLISHED A children's-school was pletely demolished but fortuna owing to the holidays, there were very few occupants when

Occurred

School

than 100 yards from the other bomb dropped

If their objective was the Canton-Kowloon Railway, the Ja panese arksmanship was ex- tremely poor, although admitted-

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Conservative press, which, how- coincident air raids on Nanking ever, expresses deep concers at the

BRITISH ACTION DEMANDED

The journal asks its readers to and Canton, remarking that the at-turn to a half-page photograph of tacks are hard to reconcile with a wounded Chinese baby lying on Japanese assurances of her con- a stretcher being bandaged by cem for the safety of non-com- Boy Scout, and urges them to write batants and foreign rights and pro to their representatives in the perty.

House of Commons demanding Bri- Liberal opinion is voiced by the tish action among the Powers to

ng-tend indiscriminate bombing. "News-Chronicle,” which; to the raids,

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